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The Portland daily press., 1887-12-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
The First Symptoms

OF all Lung diseases are much the same
feverishness, loss of appetite, sore
throat, pains In the chest and back,
headache, etc. In few days you may
be well, or, ON the other hand, you may
be down with Pneumonia or galloping
Consumption" Run no risks, but begin
Immediately to take Ayers Cherry
Pectoral.
Several years ago, James Birchard, of
Darien, Conn, was severely i'll. The
doctors said he was in Consumption,
and that they could do nothing for him,
but advised him, as last resort, to try
Ayers Cherry Pectoral. After taking
this medicine, two or three months, he
was pronounced well man. His health
remains good to the present day.
J. S. Bradley, Maiden, Mass, writes
"Three winters ago took severe cold,
which rapidly developed into Bronchitis
and Consumption. I was so weak that
/ could not sit up, was much emaciated,
and coughed necessarily. 1 consulted
several doctors, but they were power
less, and all agreed that was in Con-
sumption. At last, friend brought me
a bottle of Ayers Cherry Pectoral.
From the first dose, found relief.
Two bottles cured me, and my health
has since been perfect"
Ayers Cherry Pectoral,
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The Portland daily press., 1887-12-08

There is suspicion that the President
made his message short to conciliate the
newspaper vote.
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-08

The New York Sun expresses no opinion
in regard to the Presidents tariff policy. Its
anxiety to get back into good and regular
standing in the party renders it cautious.
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-08
THE PRESS
THURSDAY MORNING. DEC. 8.

We do not read anonymous letters and con'mu-
nlcations. The name and address OF the writer
aie III ali cases indispensable not necessarily ior
publication but as a guarantee OF good iaith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-08

President Cleyeland's message appears to
o,ye oreat satisfaction in England.
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-08
MAS. DEACON BA0GERS KITCHEN.
DANCING.

shall open a class for beginners and advanced
pupils In connection with assemblies on Friday
Evening, Dec. 9th.
Terms for five lessons and assemblies, Gentle
men 81. so, Ladies' s1.26. Instruction from TO
o. General dancing from 0 10 IL.
Date Of classes Dec. 9th, 18th, 2ist, 23rd, 28th.
dechhff ReanectfnllV. M II. GILBERT.
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-08

The Hon. Samuel j. Randall must feel
that these are very cold days. He win prob
ably warm up the climate later.
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-08

everybody cOmmends the brevity of the
Presidents message
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-08
Dissolution Of COpartnership.

ru,HE Copartnership heretofore existing be-
IL tween Elwell, Pickard & Co. and James >.
Staples, was dissolved october 20, 1887, by the
death Of Mr.. Staples. All accounts Will be settied
by the surviving partners The business OF JoD
Printing will be continued by ,,1,
dec5d1w ELWELL, PICKARD & co.
The Portland daily press., 1887-12-08
COPARTNERsmIP NOTICES.
NOTICE or DTssOLUTION.

THE copartnership heretofore existing between
Il the undersigned under the firm name oI
Ryan 4 Kelsey, has this day been dissolved Dy
mutual consent and Washington Ryan has retired
from the business which Will hereafter be con.
Quoted by Samuel Il. Kelsey alone, under the
name Of Ryan 4 Kelsey.
MrKelsey will sign the firm name IN liquidation
and collect all amounts due and pay all liatliues
outstanding against the late firm.
WASHINGTON RYAN,
SAMUEL b. KELSEY.
Portland. Nov 20, 1887. dim
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27


the Erie railway, has resigned. He wss
with the road twelve years.
CAPTAIN CHARLES FRANTz, while waiS
ing near the Chicago & Northwestern ra;..
way track at Kenosha, Wis, on the 22d, on
his way to the depot, was struck in th4
back by the cable connecting the engine
and grain cars and seriously, if not fatally,
injured.
A FRAME building, owned and occupied
by Mrs. Folsom as a grocery store and
dwelling, at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. was
destroyed by fire on the 22d. Loss about
$1,000. A pet monkey upset lamp, caus-
ing the fire.
"CUB" STRICKER, captain of the Cleye-
land Base Ball Club, was arrested on the
22d for having participates. in a Sunday
game OF baseball. He was released under
$l0o bail, pending trial in the police court
CHARLES B. FOSTER, a musician, was
found dead in his room at the Allison
House, Keokuk, Ia, on the 22d. He had
used chloroform to induce sleep, and TAX
ing an overdose went off into that sleep
that knows no wakening. He was about
thirty years old and married, leaving a
wife and several small children in desti-
tute circumstances.
COLONEL SWITZLER, chief of the Bureau
of Statistics, is charged with violating
the Civil-Service law in his appointments,
but says he is willing to face his accusers
RUSSIA has finally sent her official cir
cular to the Powers on Ferdinand and Bull
garia. Briefly summarized, it says Ferdi-
nand must vacate the throne, and be in a
hurry about it, too.
The American peace memorial has been
signed by 200 members of the British House
of Commons, including Mr.. Joseph Cham
berlain, Mr.. A. j. Mundella and Sir George
0. Trevelyan.
1T is understood that Speaker Carlisle in
tends to reply to the recent political con-
tribution of ex-Speaker Keifer to the FO-
rum.
The rifle factories at Spandau, Erfuit
and Dantzic are rapidly discharging work
men, having almost completed the orders
for repeating rifles for the German army.
The marriage of the Emperor of China
has been postponed for two years, owing
to the illness of the youthful monarch and
the prevailing monetary stringency.
MRS. HENRY WARD BEEcHER has made
arrangements to receive Rev. DR.. Parker,
of London, on his arrival in New York on
the Umbria, which will probably be on the
9th.
A GENERAL court martial has been ap-
pointed to meet at Washington Barracks,
D. c., on Monday, August 2S, to try
Second Lieutenant J. w. Weber for neg
lect of duty and disobedience of orders in
the work of the signal service, upon
charges preferred by General Greedy.
DAVID OKEY, of the Mercantile Marine
division of the Treasury Department, who
has been appointed by Secretary Fair
child to examine into the methods of the
Board of immigration of the port of New
York, presented his credentials to Collect
or Magone on the 22d and had a long
consultation with him.
THE Thistle crew continues hard at
work getting the yacht into racing trim.
The mammoth spinnaker boom, which
Captain Barr says is seventy feet long,
was towed out from the storage dock,
hauled aboard and scraped down on the
22d. 1t is expected that the Thistle will
be ready for her first sail in her racing
gear by the end of the week.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE loss on the rice crop of South Caro-
lima will exceed 100000.
JUnGE KuMLER, of Cincinnati, has de-
cided that hereafter the Union Labor party
must be recognized in making appoint
ments OF election clerks, registrars and
judges of elections.
MRs. SARAH JACKSON died at the Her.
mitage, near Nashville, Tenn, on the 23d,
aged 81 years.
The employees of the shoe factories OF
New York are threatened with general
lockout,
A CONVENTION of the Know-Nothlng
party will be held in Philadelphia next
July to nominate candidates for President
and Vice President.
DEFINITE information has been received
at st. Louis that the Presidential party
will reach that city on October lst, and re-
main until the night of the 4th, when the
party will leave for Chicago.
C. E. BARTLETT, cashier of the Sumter
Is. CO. National Bank, has absconded with
$40, 900. The bank has suspended tempo
rarily, but can stand the loss.
AT Okolona, Miss, on the Goth, there was
was JOINT debate between Gov. Lowry
and Hon. Frank Burkitt on State finances.
A CONTINUANCE was granted on the 10th
in the Hamilton case, which was set for
trial at Brandon, Miss.
THE cotton crop in the neighborhood OF
Pine Bluff, Ark, has been greatly DAM
aged by the protracted drouth. Young
bolls and squares are falling off and the
outlook is discouraging.
THE financial embarrassments of Indiana
are growing more and more serious. The
last dollar in the general fund of the State
Treasury was paid out on the Goth, and
there are no resources that can be drawn
upon before next December.
GEORGE BRINsKI, the man who claimed
20 have served three years in the Union
army during the war of the rebellion as
substitute for Grover Cleveland, died at
Bath, N. Y, on the Goth.
A MOST terrific hail storm swept over
Atchison, Kan, on the 2Oth. Some OF the
stones measured nine and ten inches In
circumference.
WIN. BYERs, of Indiana, Pa, shot and
instantly killed his father, John S. Byers.
The father wanted the son to plow and ar
alteration occurred, resulting in the son,
aged 19, drawing revolver and shooting
the father through the heart. The neigh
borhood is excited and there is talk OF
Iynching the patricide.
THE President has signed an order trans
ferring the names of pensioners residing
IN Virginia and West Virginia from the
rolls of the pension agency located at
Knoxville, Tenn, to the agency in Wash
ington, to take effect November ], 1887.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27
WEATHER AND CROPS.

The Signal Office Weekly weather-Crop
Bulletin-W Distributed Rainfall in
the Drought Section, But Rather Tardy
to be of Service, Except to Late Planted
Areas.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-The signal of.
flee weekly weather. crop bulletin says:
During the week ending August 20 it has
been slightly warmer than usual through
out the Southern States and the Ohio val
ley, and cooler than usual throughout the
Lake region and the Upper Mississippi and
Missouri valleys, the average daily TEN.
perature in the last district ranging from
2 to 4 degrees below the normal. In
New England, the Middle Atlantic States
and ON the Pacific coast the temperature
differed but slightly from the normal
The daily average temperature for the sea
son, from January l to August 20, has
ranged from / to 2 degrees above
the normal in the central val
leys, and it has been slightly
cooler than usual at stations on the At
lantic and Pacific coasts, and from Lake
Superior westward to Montana. During
the week the rainfall has been in excess
generally throughout the corn and tobac-
coregions, and the northeast portion of
the cotton region and in Northern New
England, while there has been less than
the usual amount of rain in the lower Mis-
sissippi valley, on the Middle and South
Atlantic coast in Arkansas, in the south
ern portions Of Missouri and Kansas, and
from Lake Superior westward to Dakota.
Well distributed rains have occurred
throu ghout the drought region, and rain
continues in this section. The large def
cheney in the rainfall for the season, rang
ing from five to fifteen inches in the Missis-
sppi valley, has been slightly reduced in
the Northern States and augmented in the
Southern States during the past week, the
only sections reporting an excess of rain
fall for the season being Northern New
England, central portions of the Middle
Atlantic States, Southern Dakota, and the
northern Pacific coast.
The weather for the week has been ia
vorable throughout the corn belt, and the
recent rains have greatly improved the
condition of that crop, but owing to the
lateness of the rains in the principal corn
producing States, the yield will probably
be below the average. In the cotton re-
gion from Alabama westward to Texas
the weather for the past week has i'm
proved the crop conditions and the cotton
harvest is progressing, but more rain would
benefit the crop in the central portion of
Arkansas. In North and South Carolina
an excess of rainfall for the week is re-
ported as unfavorable for the cotton crop.
The weather has been generally favorable
for all crops in Kentucky, Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and in the Middle Atlantic and New
England States. In Minnesota the uncut
crops were improved, and harvested crops
damaged by the rain.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27
BLOODY RIOT.
A Large Party of Miners at Glen Lyon, Pa,
Desecrate the Sabbath by Enga ging in
an Iniiscriminate Fight, in Which Many
Were Badly Wounded.

Large Party of Miners at Glen Lyon, Pa,
Desecrate the Sabbath by Engaging in
an Indiscriminate Fight, in Which Many
Were Badly Wounded.
WILKEsBARRE. Pa, Aug. % fearful
riot took place Sunday at Glen Lyon, five
miles from Nanticoke, in which three hum
dred miners were engaged. The combat
ants were composed of men of all nation
alities, Irishmen, Welshmen, Hungarians
and Poles being largely represented.
Strangely enough, the mad occurrence
was inspired by Q Methodist preacher
named Taggart 1t seems that it has been
the custom of several Hungarian and Polish
merchants of Nanticoke to send peddlers
to Glen Lyon to supply certain boarding.
housekeepers. These latter in many in
stances are hired by young unmarried
men who club and live together. They
order goods of the peddlers, who trust them.
The Susquehanna Coal Company always
select Saturday for payday Heretofore
it has been their practice to pay at
Nanticoke on Saturday. This time, how
ever, for the first time, they paid the men
at Glen Lyon, or Morgantown, on Sunday,
which day has always been chosen by the
merchants to make their collections, Rev.
Mr.. Taggart, Of Glen Lyon, has frequently
preached against this desecration of the
Sabbath, and finally determined to put a
stop to it if possible. Sunday he organized
a posse of his church members for that
purpose. The men got wind Of it and
make up their minds to resist any over
lures of the kind. The collectors made
their appearance, and the natural excite
ment of the moment was augmented by
universal indulgence in beer and whisky.
AS the day advanced the churchmen be-
came alarmed at the situation and kept
themselves in hiding. The feeling of an
tagonism was so intense, however, that it
finally eliminated in free fight between
men of opposite nationalities maddened
with drink. Soon there were three hun
dred men furiously engaged with sticks,
stones and clubs for weapons.
The riot lasted half an hour, and men
were struck down on all sides. Dozens
were carried away with cracked and bleed
ing heads to their homes. A few women
mixed in the fray, and several of them
were badly beaten. The riot ceased only
when the participants were too few to
carry it on, the wounded requiring the at
tenton Of MANY who did not return after
they left the field Yesterday it was re-
ported that over sixty of the rioters We're
seriously hurt, many of them fatally. An
investigation will be made, with possible
arrests. The town is in a fever Of wild
excitement.
Dra'n-Pipe Works Destroyed by Fire.
Boston, Aug. 22.-Tbe drain-piDe works
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

IT is semi-officially stated that the
cholera in Sicily has been overcome and
that there is no longer any danger of the
disease spreading at Naples or Resina.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

los. CHAMBERLAIN and T. w. Russell
have withdrawn from the Unionist party
IN account Of the proclamation OF the Irish
National League.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

REV. EDWARD DoANE, an American
missionary in the Caroline Islands, has
been Imprisoned on charge of melting the
natives to disobey the Governor.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

GENERAL FERRON, French Minister of
War has gone to the Alps to establish
definitely the defenses of the southeast
err frontier, and to organize new Alpine
cOTns
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

HENRY GEORGE was nominated for Sec
retarv of State of New York by the United
Labor convention at Syracuse.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

Rev. Dr.. PARKER, eulogist of Henry
Ward Beecher. sailed from London for
New York on the Goth.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

A WESTERN waterways convention is
called to meet at Memphis, Tenn, Octo-
her % to q.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27
IN BRIEF.
Complied from Various Sources.

TJPsKI. the London Jewish murderer
.ontessed or the eve of his execution.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

THE Yacht race between the Galatea and
the Dauntless, at Halifax, on the 10Th,
ended at 3 p. NJ, the Galatea being the
winner on account of her allowance, al
though the Dauntless led her at the close
about n hundred wards
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

CHARLES HATGHT shot his wife at Ham
mondsport, N. Y, on the 10Th, and then
shot himself. Both are dead. The terri
bic affair occurred at their home, near
Hammondsport. The couple leave an in
FAINT few months old.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

Dra'n-Pipe Works Destroyed by Fire.
BOSTON, Aug. 22.-The drain-pipe works
of Ham 6. Carter, No. T30 Albany street.
We're totally destroyed by fire thismorn
ing. Loss about $1,000; insurance un
known.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

Ned HANLAN, the oarsman, has gone to
San Francisco, en- route to Australia, to
row his match with Beach, for which $1,000
a side has been posted. He accounts for
the phenomenal time in his recent race
with Teemer by the fact that the course
was six hundred feet short.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

IEE Secretary of War has directed four
companies Of the Twenty-third Infantry.
stationed at Fort Wayne, Mich; Light
battery f, Fourth Artillery, at Fort SHELL
mS' ana troop of cavalry at Fort Leav-
ea8orth, to proceed to Chicago and par
@.Pate in the drill. Colonel H. M. Black
SA be ii command.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

THE close of the week ended the Goth
found the Detroits still at the head of the
League base ball-ball series, Chicago one
game behind them and the Bostons
dropped to fifth place. The st. Louis
Browns keep their lead in the Association,
with Louisville second, sixteen games be-
hind
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

Mr.. JOSEPH MILLER, Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, who left Washington
for his home in West Virginia about
month ago for the benefit of his health,
which had become considerably impaired,
is now at the Warm springs of Virginia,
suffering from severe affection of the
kidnevs.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

THE Secretary of the Navy is about to
sell the old soop of war Cyane, now lying
ct the Mare Island Navy Yard, San Fran
cisco. The Cayne is the last ship remain
Ing OF the men-of-war captured from the
English in lSl215, and was taken by the
Constitution, commanded by Captain
ChaS. Stewart.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

JAY GOULD, the millionaire, has been
Pl. under bond to pay bill of $l05-that
n ne must pay that sum if it can be sworn
IL 'he United States Circuit Court that
,S yacht, Atlanta, did that amount of
uahage to the canalboat VIM. E. Cleary
vi May q, while the latter lay safely
Aoored at a dock in Yonkers.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

A LETTER received few days ago by
Rev. Father 2. F. Healy, at Portland, Me-,
from his brother, Captain Healy of the
revenue steamer Bear, announced that he
had beached his vessel, constructed cof-
ferdam, found the leak, replaced the cop
Per and gone on his Northern voyage.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

;, iHS Steamer st. Paul arrived at San
t'9ncisco from Behring sea on the 18th,
=: .l'o u reports that great fears are expressed
q. a ounalaska for the safety of the United
c'a'eS revenue cutter Bear, commanded by
t"Pl' aeLay. In the opinion of many, it
. uouotful il she ever returns to Ounalas-
A' rom which port she sailed June 20.
Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27

Queen Victoria Gives Mr.. Frank III. Collier,
of Chicago, Private Audience at os-
borne House, and Receives Congratuia-
tory Address, to Which Her Majesty
GraciOusly Replies.
The Clifton clarion., 1887-04-20
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
sT0SES EIAED gN Hsa.O0D. GlIa&fiy Practices .9 Ancient BuiI- Gers Whose oriz Called Forth
 Cruelty.

Here is ghastly story given by Thiele in his ''Danish Folk Tales:" Many years ago, when the ram parts were being raised around Copenhagen, the wall always sank, so that It was not possible to get 1t to stand firm. They therefore took all innocent little girl, placed her in chair by table, and gave her playtiings and sweetneats. While she sat enjoying herself; twelve masons built all arch over her, which, when completed, they covered witlf earth, to the sound of drums and trumpets. By this pro cess tLe walls were made solid. When, few years ago, the bridge gate of tue Bremen city walls was demolished, the skeleton of a child was found imbedded in the founda- tions Heinrich Heine says on this subject:
 In tho middle agea the opinion prevailed that when any building was to be erected something liv- ing must be killed, in the blood of which the foundation had to be laid, by which process the building would be secured from falling; and in ballads and traditions the remembrance is still preserved how children and animals were slaugh- tered for the purpose of strength ening large buildings with their blood"
 The story of the walls of Copen- hagen comes to us only as tfa- dition, but the horrible truth must be told that in all probability it is DO invention of the fancy, but a fact. We have an allusion to this custom in the British History" of Geotfrey of Monmouth, who relates how Vortigern was building cas- tie, when the foundation sank. Then ne consulted wise men, and they told him that he must lay fatherless boy under them. and so only could they be made to stand.
 Throughout Norway. Sweden, Denmark and North Germany tra- dition associates some animal with every church, and 1t goes by the name of the kirkgrim. These are the goblin apparitions of the beasts that were buried under the foun- dation stones of the churches. It is the same in Devonshire-the writer will not say at the present day, but certainly tor;y or fifty years ago. Indeed, when he was a boy lie drew up list of the kirk grnns that haunted all the neigh boring parishes. To tine church of the parish in which he lived be- longed two white sows yoked to- gcther with q silver chain; to an- other a black dog; to third ghostly calf; to fourth white lamb.-Cornhill Magazire
The Clifton clarion., 1887-04-20
Funeral eff "a Distinguished Cat.

London News: Yesterday morn ing (Feb. 15) d mournful process ion, headed by the tiremen of the theatre, crossed the stage of Old Drury. The tiremen were closely followed by four stalwart men, who bore on their shoulders a miniature coffin. Behind them came the meurners. Poor old Pick les was about to be buried in the adJourning yard. Pickles was a very favorite cat in the theatre, and everyone at once recognized the propriety of the ceremony, for Pickles and Drury Lane Theatre have for years been inseparable. Pickles was induced at one time to become pubic performer, being brought on in pie by MT. Harry Payne, the clown. but as Mr Payne now says, nobody after the first two nights was able to catch that eat in time for the performance, although 1t habltually turned up at the wings to see what its under study made ot the part. Another amusing reminisence of the de- ceased cat is that during the run of a nautical melodrama in calmly walked across the raging waves as though they had been merely painted on convas- Pickles is sup posed to have come by his death by tackling d poisoned Tt. How ever that may be, Pickles Is greatly regretted by all who ever perform ed at Drury Lane as cat who could pick out q success from failure, au actor from an amateur, and who would show his apprecia- tiOn of those pieces and perform CTS he approved of by attending their rehearsals, and studlously avoiding those of people he had found wanting.
 NJ. Frenzy has read paper at the Preach Academy of Sciences describing the successful research es made by him. with NJ. Verneuii's assistance. for obtaining artificial rubies. By letting alumina dis solve in tiuoriGe of calcium he ob- tained crystals of alnmlna--that is to say, perfect rabies, defying the closest scrutiny, aud even his her ill value than natural stones. They can be made of large size,